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> [“Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/language-when-it-finally-comes-has-the-vigor-of-a-felon-pardoned/)

[Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/)

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